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Some sunshine earlier this afternoon, but clouded over in the last few hours, staying mostly dry. I do get the impression given the last 7 days or so April is trying its best to redeem itself here locally. The sunshine hours as follows: 11th April: 3.8 hours 12th: 10.0 13th: 4.9 14th: 5.8 15th: 6.1 16th: 6.0 17th: 6.9 18th: 7.5 Out of around 110 hours of total possible sunshine, give or take a few, there's been 51 hours which is about 45% of available daylight, decent enough. 1st - 11th April had around 34 hours of sunshine in total. Whole month has had about 80 hours now, unlikely to reach the April average of 147 hours, but at least it won't be among the dullest Aprils on records which contained around 70 hours. It's been fairly dry in the same period, just the odd few showers and most of that falling at night or early in the morning. it could be much worse is all i'm saying, and is an improvement to the first 7-10 days of the month. 1st - 10th April had about 37mm, 11th-18th about 12mm.

Good to see the ensembles trending towards something warmer. There has been a gradual trend towards less cool air next week as well. Ultimately though we need a dry couple of weeks now- regardless of the temperatures.

Spectromat Below is a link to a Met Office blog about the heatwaves of summer of 2022 and the role of the wavenumber 5 pattern. https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2022/07/19/summer-2022-a-historic-season-for-northern-hemisphere-heatwaves/

If you’re talking to me at least @ me thanks. In what way I have done that? All I’m saying temperatures are indicated to be well below average for late April, no one has mention snow and freezing temperatures and what can be expected at this time of year. You said about me being antagonistic, I think you should look at yourself, all you do is purposely try to undermine messaging, if anything cool is mentioned, it’s a repeated pattern from you. It’s as if it upsets you personally, I find it very odd it is just the weather.